The One with Our Last Day of Work (Forever!...Haha, We Wish)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Today was my last day of working as an In-House Scrapbooker/Product Designer at American Crafts. Don't even get me started, I've already balled to myself, my husband, and my mom.Here is part of the email I sent to my co-workers because I just don't think I can write anything better:

I'm not so good at goodbyes so I'll try my darndest to say the things that I want to say. These last 20 months have flown by. You know what they say, time flies when you're having fun. I have loved working with each and every one of you. This truly has been my dream job and I have fulfilled my lifelong goal and favorite words to live by: choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. There is some amazing talent all up in here at AC. I'm so excited to see what you guys come up with next - the lines ya'll have been working on these last couple weeks are A.MA.ZING. Thank goodness I'll still have my foot in the door via the Contributing Design Team. If I were being cut cold turkey from AC, I think I'd die.

Chris has a final tomorrow morning at 11am and then his graduation from BYU is at 3pm. Yeah, he has a final on THE DAY he graduates. He has dragged this thing called college out til the bitter end.

To keep my thoughts on happy, positive things, my family is driving out from Washington as we speak. I mean as I write this. (DRIVE SAFE!!!!) And Chris' family is driving out here from Colorado tomorrow morning. Family is good.

welcome!

I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! We now live in Littleton, CO where Chris works at his dream job as a dentist at Old Town Dental. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee calledFANCY FREE, TAKE ME AWAY, OH MY HEART, TURN THE PAGE, PICK-ME-UP, WHIMSICAL & HORIZON. I’m a teacher at Big Picture Classes, on the Scrapbook & Cards Today design team, I make and release 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!